Care, Compassion, and Commitment to Education
Care, Compassion, and Commitment to Education
When you ask senior care healthcare professionals about why they chose their careers, you’ll hear them the same ideals voiced by many different clinicians: compassion, an interest in learning about people’s histories, and a desire to provide continuing care for older adults.
People who pursue senior care as a profession often have a close connection to an older adult or caregiver in their own lives, typically a grandparent or other role model. These geriatric practitioners have seen first-hand that medical care for older adults can improve dramatically when it’s less “choppy” or fragmented—a principle at the heart of geriatrics. In many cases, helping solve the problem of fragmented, impersonal health care is what ultimately inspires a career in senior care.
Senior Care is known for its team-based approach to caring for older people and supporting families and caregivers. Among its many collaborators, the typical senior care team may include
Your association currently has over 3,000 members.The opportunities available to future senior care health experts have never been greater. We need about 20,000 geriatricians today to staff up for the needs we have right now, for example, yet there are less than 7,300 certified geriatricians practicing nationwide.
Knowing that we’ll need even more geriatricians—as many as 30,000 by 2030—the field is poised to thrive on the expertise of creative and forward-thinking colleagues across a range of healthcare disciplines such as chiropractic, pharmacology and nursing.
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